heartwarming and honest little touches round it into a complete and unforgettable picture that's as moving as it is gut-busting funny with every

In either case, he's the ideal actor to counterbalance John Candy's obnoxiously lovable and eccentrically funny Del Griffith. From the moment we first see that face inside Neal's cab and hear that he's a traveling shower-ring salesman, we know there something a bit off-kilter about him, but we also can't help loving the big lug. He's like the family uncle with all the stupid, juvenile jokes that only a few will laugh at, yet Candy turns the character into a witty and winning personality we enjoy spending time with. This is easily the much loved actor's most memorable performance. Planes, Trains & Automobiles sounds a whole lot better than a Chatty Cathy doll. For the most part, this is a dialogue film that has little need for Paramount does not seem to be able to get releases of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles on home video right. The 2012 Blu-ray release had serious flaws and it seems this new 4K Ultra HD release may be worse. Arriving in a 1.85:1 HEVC 2160p (4K UHD) Dolby Vision encodement, the film suffers from serious softness and at times even looks out of focus. There are serious issues with grain suppression, which can be seen really early on, such as when Steve Martin misses the taxi and then is seen getting off the bus – his face looks like wax. This is an ongoing occurrence in the film. In the scene with Martin and Candy in the motel room as Martin begins to get annoyed with Candy, both of their faces started to look very smooth, losing all texture. The application of Dolby Vision brings very little to the image. Colors look about the same as on the Blu-ray and contrast is average at best, actually suffering a bit of crush on nighttime shots of the city and streets, which are the only ones that show a bit of specular highlight ‘pop.’ The Audio

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veteran comedians Steve Martin and John Candy and the effortlessness with which they play every angle their parts demand, from pure anger to After thirty years, Planes, Trains and Automobiles still delivers some gut-busting laughs, and it's to the credit of Steve Martin and John Candy as well as the writing/directing talents of John Hughes. During the latter half of the 1980s, Hughes was typed as a filmmaker of only teen movies. Automobiles was his first foray into strictly adult-oriented comedy, and the film essentially proves his ability to deliver the goods. Using a conventional buddy/road film plotline with absurd antics and appealing characters, Hughes made what could be considered the best and most endearing comedy of his career. Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a laugh-a-minute joyride, right from its goofy opening sequence in the streets of New York to its heartwarming conclusion in the suburbs of Chicago. It's a fairly standard, and even predictable, road-trip comedy with the silliness of the odd-couple tension thrown in for good measure. But in the adept hands of John Hughes, who also wrote and produced the film, it remains an endearing charmer made up mostly of situational laughs and crazy high jinks, always with lots of heart at its center. shadow detail in some of the darker scenes. Colors look good and represent the transfer's finest asset. Bright hues and dreary and cold grays alike are

The Dolby Vision grading hardly offers any sort of tonal revelation, either. True, the image enjoys some additional depth, but with that depth comes I felt that in general the presentation offered fair to middling resolution, not in keeping what we have seen from the better offerings, especially for re-mastered catalog titles. If I had to describe the Ultra HD presentation in one word, it would be, flat. Oddly enough I found that the Blu-ray makes for a more stable viewing experience, despite not having those eye-catching moments seen on the Ultra HD rendering. even better than the sum of its laughs: its heart. This is really the story of a developing friendship and not just a display of one misadventureJohn Hughes for Adults (SD, 4 min): Recycling a few answers from the above conference, this very short piece talks about John Hughes as a filmmaker with other, more recent interviews from crew members and one vintage clip with Kevin Bacon, who appeared in She's Having a Baby, released a year after this film, but which, interestingly, Neil's wife is seen watching on TV late at night.

artificial grain returned. The result is an uneven image that looks nothing like the rich, organic, natural film texture that should be in evidence (andfor the one that Del just so happened to grab upon landing. And so Neal's and Del's daylong journey together becomes a shared night in a cheap attitude make them the perfect odd couple. As their trip drags on and as the casualties on their mental well-being mount and their hope and money The heart of the bonus features included in this release is the over-an-hour’s worth of deleted and extended scenes on a bonus Blu-ray that were recently discovered in John Hughes’ archive. Everything else, other than the Dylan Baker audition, is on the 4K disc and is ported over from the Blu-ray release.